On January 10, with 15 games remaining on the schedule and possibly more available in postseason tournaments, UNLV fired head men’s basketball coach Dave Rice.
On April 16, after 44 other Division I basketball programs had executed coaching changes, after UNLV had unsuccessfully courted Rick Pitino, Mick Cronin and goodness-knows-who-else, after UNLV had landed Chris Beard only to watch him change his mind a week later, the UNLV administration announced Marvin Menzies had been selected as the new man in charge of Runnin’ Rebels basketball.
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So what did UNLV get for the bother of tossing out Rice in the middle of the year?